Aisle-lighting device.



l. I. HANCL. AISLE LIGHTING DEVICE-1 APPLlCAT-l-QN FILED DEC. 29 I916.

Patented Feb. 25, 1919.

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HANCE, 0E 1V NEVJ'EQTal, MASSACHUSETTS ATSLE-LEG-HTING DEVECE.

Specification of Letters Eatent.

Application filed December 29, 1916. Serial N o. 139,4:83.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that T, TsAAo T. Hares, a citizen of the United States, residing at West Newton, in the county of Middlesex, in the State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Aisle-Lighting Devices, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

- The object of this invention is to provide reasonably cheap and effective means for lighting the aisles of motion picture theaters and the like places where the auditorium is darkened much of the time; my improved device being so constructed and located that the flooring only of the aisle is illuminated. This renders it safe for comers and goers to pass along the aisle during such times as the auditorium is darkened whereas, at the present time, the liability of making a misstep and of a possible accident is particularly embarrassing to aged or timid persons.

In order to explain my invention 1 have provided the annexed drawings in which Figure 1 is a diagrannnatio plan of a portion of an aisle of a theater showing the preferred location of a plurality of floor lights embodying my present improvements. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of a chair frame showing my lighting device clamped to said frame. Figs. 3 and 4 are side and end elevations of said device as it appears when mounted on a stand which is specially designed to be bolted tothe floor of the aisle close up to the said chair frame.

Referring to these drawings, the numeral 10 indicates the aisle and 11 the rows of seats at the opposite sides of said aisle. 12 denotes each lamp and stand as a whole;

The lights are located with staggered relation to each other and so that each light will illumine the floor immediately in front of it, as well as the entrances between the seats on the opposite side of the aisle, as will be understood by reference to Fig. 1 of the drawings.

The lamps 12 may be mounted on stands which are secured to the floor close up to the edge of the aisle, that is to say, near the first chair frame, or said lamp may be secured, by means of a suitable bracket, to the inner side of said -chair frame in such position that the light will shine through an Fig. 2 of the drawings opening in said frame onto the flooring of the aisle.

The lamp proper comprises an electric light bulb 13 which is mounted in a suitable reflector hood 14 by means of which the rays of light are deflected downward upon the floor, said'lamp being swivelcd upon the otherwise free end portion f a standard 15. The lower end of the standard 15 has a nut and screw-threaded connection 16 with a bracket 17 adapted to be suitably at tached to the floor, with the lamp so disposed as to provide for throwing its, light int the aisle. The standard 15, it will be observed, has its lower portion just above its point of connection 16, with the bracket 17 crooked or bent as at 19, whereby said point of connection may be efiected inside of the chair or seat frame, thus providing for the positioning of the floor-attaching bracket 17 out of the way in the aisle, the chair-frame allowing of the passing of said standard therethrough as will be seen may be done from Fig.2.

In the arrangement of parts shown in the lamp is located just inside the end frame 18 of the chair nearest the aisle, the lamp being thus completely out of reach of the feet of persons traveling along the aisle.

The wiring of the several lamps may be from below the floor.

With a plurality of lamps located in substantially the described relation to each other and to the floor of the aisle, said floor may be illuminated without illuminating objectionably the auditorium proper.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and wish to secure by Letters Patent:

In a device of the type described, the combination of a standard, a lamp-reflector, with its lamp, the former having a swiveled connection with the upper end of said standarch and a floor attaching bracket for said standard, said standard having a crooked or bent portion near its pointof connection with said bracket, whereby the upper portion of said standard, with the lamp-reflector and lamp, may be positioned to throw the rays of light outside of the object with which it may be associated as set forth.

ISAAC I. HANCE. 

